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...Aspen, the bottom slot goes to guys like David Massarano, a prosperous real estate attorney from Houston who recently dropped $470,000 for three slices of a one-bedroom condo in the six-week-old Hyatt Grand Aspen, 157 steps from the gondola at the base of Aspen Mountain...
Early Sunday morning, during the last Olympic qualifying event for the U.S. snowboard team, medal favorite Hannah Teter lounged at the bottom of the half-pipe- the sloping channel where boarders do their tricks- at Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, N.J. Since she had already earned a trip to Torino, Teter could just, as she says, "chill out." She shimmied to the hip-hop music blaring over the loudspeakers, and cheered while her teammates soared. "It's great to have the opportunity to reach out to people that don't know much about snowboarding, so they...
...world's best snowboarders, like Teter, still project the laid-back, surfer-dude spirit that sparked this once-renegade sport (the public address announcer's favorite word at the Mountain Creek Grand Prix: "gnarly"). But make no mistake, these elite athletes are no slackers. America is stoked about the shredders- from the mainstream sponsors whose banners line the pipe- Chevrolet, Sprint, State Farm (crash your board, but not your car)- to the mini-van moms who, kids in tow, watch Teter ?McTwist? to Guns N? Roses...
...have pocketed the money. In Guangdong alone, two million farmers have been displaced by development, according to provincial statistics. These land seizures were one of the top causes for the 84,000 "disturbances to public order" that Beijing says broke out nationwide in 2005. "We farmers depend on our mountain and our lake to make a living," says Lin's brother. "Now that they've taken them away, how can we continue our lives...
...audience in Kansas, one of the nation's most reliably Republican states, was one of the President's biggest since the election. The speech, followed by a question period that covered everything from the Sudan to "Brokeback Mountain," ran 1 hour 40 minutes, one of the longest events of his presidency. He was in a playful mood, donning a purple tie in deference to his hosts, the Wildcats of Kansas State University, and teasing himself during a long answer: "I'm kind of wandering here." He drew appreciative laughs from the supportive but fidgety audience when he finally ended...